Edging Toward Japan: We are often witnessing the 'Rashomon Effect' without realizing it

There is a phenomenon known as the "Rashomon Effect" which observes that participants in an event can provide you with ...
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Director’s reflection on CATS’ upcoming production of Rashomon

How would you honor the legacies of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, whose stories inspired the movie Rashomon, or Akira Kurosawa, the legendary filmmaker who made the movie, or Faye and Michael Kanin, who ...
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

It is noticeable that the tales in "Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa change in tone and style alongside the mental state and interests of the writer. Akutagawa's most famed ...
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The unique voice of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

RASHOMON AND SEVENTEEN OTHER STORIES, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Jay Rubin, introduction by Haruki Murakami. London: Penguin Classics, 2006, 268 pp., £9.99 (paper). In what is still the ...